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Re:X17 Particle by earthboundkid on Saturday November 23, 2019 @10:04PM (#21618082)
I can believe in Dark Matter. I can believe in Dark Energy. I cannot believe in both. It’s an epicycle for sure.
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Re:X17 Particle by jfengel on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:44PM (#21630660)
Why not? They describe completely different phenomena, two different things we do not understand. There is no reason to think that they might have a single underlying solution, nor is there any theory that points to one.

Science can have more than one mystery, with independent leading solutions. It would be like historians declaring that they could believe in the Sea Peoples or Jack the Ripper but not both.

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Re:X17 Particle by earthboundkid on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:33AM (#21637382)
No, it would be like positing that the Ripper killings were done by 5 different people.
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